A practical, printable checklist of the questions to ask before buying solar and batteries — DNO applications, G98 vs G99, battery chemistry, inverter sizing, backup and black start, export limits, warranties, firmware, monitoring, earthing, fire safety, EV charging and future upgrades — with the reason each one matters.
Technology rarely deletes a profession. It quietly rewrites what being good at that profession means, and the people who struggle most are often the ones with the deepest investment in the old definition.
How a single Raspberry Pi running a few Python scripts quietly became a homelab of over a hundred Docker containers — and why the more I build, the more control I get back.
Lessons from living with a solar and battery system: the future-proofing decisions that cost almost nothing during installation but thousands afterwards. Conduits, cable routes, battery positioning, inverter headroom, monitoring and the enterprise-IT habit of designing for growth.
A plain-English guide to G98 and G99, the rules that govern connecting solar and batteries to the grid in Great Britain. What they are, why they exist, the DNO, export limits, notification versus permission, and why understanding them before you install can save you money.
Renewable technology has become far more complicated, and installer knowledge has not always kept pace. A look at the widening solar knowledge gap, why it matters, and why the cheapest quote is rarely the whole story.
A Veeam backup server on Windows Server 2025 started rebooting itself after a PowerShell upgrade failed with a 'please insert the disk' prompt — and the root cause turned out to be a directory I had deleted, weeks earlier, to reclaim space.
How I built COSMOS — a self-hosted, Markdown-driven studio that captures mountains of raw material, sharpens it with AI review and scoring, and publishes durable knowledge straight into Hugo. It is open source; come and break it.
How I taught Home Assistant to schedule my home battery from solar forecasts, the Octopus Agile price curve and my own usage history, to cut grid import.
Why AI should be run as an enterprise platform and utility rather than bolted on as another application — the platform team, the gateway, governance, and the maturity curve.